1 46 FORD ABBEY. 



or Beaumont (as Dr. Pring says) barry of six, vairy argent and 

 gules*, with the legend : 



S' Commune Monasterii Beate De Forda. 



The arms of the family of Chard (according to Ediiiondson) are, 

 quarterly : or and gules, over all a label of five points azure. 

 These arms are, as I have said, nowhere to be found blazoned at 

 Ford Abbey, and it is very probable that Thomas Chard may have 

 adopted as his badge the stag's head embossed, with a crosier 

 issuing from its mouth, which we find on the before-mentioned 

 panel ; which cognizance may have been taken from the old name 

 of the site of the abbey Hartes-bath (balneum cervorum). 



J. S. UDAL. 

 The Manor House, Symondsbury. 



August, 1887. 



* On referring to Edmondson (Complete Body of Heraldry 1780) I find that 

 there is no coat of a Beauchampe or Beauchamp answering to the description 

 of the one here given on the shield, but there is one attributed to Beaumont 

 of Devonshire which does ; so that in all probability Dr. Pring is right. 



